The 2008 ASP Zippo Design Contest

Once again, it's time to put together the alt.smokers.pipes Zippo lighter for the upcoming year. Last year we tried something new - allowing anyone who wished to to submit a design for the lighter and choosing from the submitted designs by vote. It worked out great and we had five designs to choose from. The winner of the vote for the ASP 2007 lighter design was Ken Dixon's excellent design featuring Sherlock Holmes. Steven Fowler's design, a chrome version of the standard brass ASP Zippo was so popular, it was offered as an alternate to the ASP Traditional Zippo.

The only problem with last year's contest was we started too early. That's not a problem this year.

So, enough retrospective. Here's how it's going to go: you think up a design for the 2008 ASP Zippo. If you want to draw it, as long as you can email it to me, fine. If you can describe it, email your description to me. Once I have your design idea, I'll draw it or clean up your artwork, make it so that it will work on a Zippo, work out the colors and the style of lighter, etc. and email it back to you. We will correspond until we are both satisfied that the design is what you want. I will then do a rendering of the lighter as it will appear after manufacture and post it along with the other submitted designs on a convenient website.

Once the designs are all on the website, I'll post to alt.smokers.pipes the location of the website and the voting will begin. The design with the most votes at the end of the voting period will be the alt.smokers.pipes 2008 Lighter, and we can begin taking orders.

If you're worried about your artistic ability, don't. I'll do the drawing. Only two out of the five entries last year came to me with any artwork at all. If you're a Photoshop/Illustrator whiz and you can send me finished artwork, great! Less work for me! The important thing is the idea and I'll accept your idea in any way you can communicate it to me, short of interpretive dance. It'll be fun. I'm easy to work with - ask the guys from last year.

Here are the deadlines:
Submission period: from now until midnight January 6th, 2008 (that's two weeks - should be long enough).
Voting period: from January 7th (when the designs will be displayed on the website) until midnight January 13th.
Note: the submission period may be shortened (with notice posted on ASP) if there are sufficient entries and submissions seem to be all in. In this case, the voting period may be moved up also. All of this is subject to change in case of hard drive crash, plagues of locusts, etc. but you understand that.

So, if your design is chosen, what do you win? Fame, bragging rights and the adoration of the masses. What more could one want? So get cracking!

Send all entries to: bburney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Bill "send 'em in" Burney
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Relevant Pages

  • Re: 2006 ASP Zippo Extra
    ... Bert Olton wrote: ... The "alt.smokers.pipes" part of the design was just too fat, it dominated the design and needed to be a lighter font. ... The ASP standard is always the same: brushed brass with the ASP logo etched on one side. ...
    (alt.smokers.pipes)
  • ANN: ASP 2007 Zippo Extra Lighter Design Competition (long)
    ... This year Bill Burney stunned us all with a complete re design of the ASP Extra Zippo pipe lighter. ... The second round of ASP Zippo lighters is almost done, and we won't have enough time to do a third round before the end of the year, so it's time to look at next year's lighters. ... There will also be an ASP 2007 Extra lighter that will be a design not only chosen by ASP'ers, ...
    (alt.smokers.pipes)
  • Re: The 2008 ASP Zippo Design Contest
    ... Last year we tried something new - allowing anyone who wished to to submit a design for the lighter and choosing from the submitted designs by vote. ... Steven Fowler's design, a chrome version of the standard brass ASP Zippo was so popular, it was offered as an alternate to the ASP Traditional Zippo. ... The design with the most votes at the end of the voting period will be the alt.smokers.pipes 2008 Lighter, and we can begin taking orders. ...
    (alt.smokers.pipes)
  • Re: Thoughts on future Zippo Extras
    ... Bert Olton wrote: ... My idea would be to wait until later in the year to do the Design Contest for the future Extras...like November or December, instead of August as we did this year. ... It worked out great, but as you say, it may have spiked the 2006 lighter sales. ...
    (alt.smokers.pipes)
  • Re: The 2008 ASP Zippo Design Contest
    ... lighter for the upcoming year. ... 2007 lighter design was Ken Dixon's excellent design featuring Sherlock ... ASP Zippo was so popular, it was offered as an alternate to the ASP ... Voting period: from January 7th (when the designs will be displayed on ...
    (alt.smokers.pipes)